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Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
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The train arrived at Hollyhill shortly after 2 p.m. Mr. Stanlock's
touring car and two taxicabs were waiting at the station to convey the
girls to Marion's home. The run to the spacious, half-rustic Stanlock
residence at the northeast edge of the city occupied about fifteen
minutes, and was without notable incident.

The cars passed through a massive iron gateway, up a winding
gravel-bedded drive, and stopped near a white pillared pergola
connected with the large colonial house by a vine-covered walk running
up to a porticoed side entrance.

Mrs. Stanlock met them at the door and the travelers were speedily
accommodated with the usual journey-end attentions. Marion then
inquired for her father, but Mr. Stanlock had gone to his office early
in the day and would not return until dinnertime. So the girl hostess
decided that she must let the problem uppermost in her mind rest
unsettled a few hours longer.

Evening came, but still Mr. Stanlock did not appear. Wondering at his
delay, Mrs. Stanlock called up his office, but learned that he had
left an hour and a half before, supposedly for home.

"How did he leave?" Mrs. Stanlock inquired nervously.

"In his automobile," was the answer.

That being the case, he ought to have been home more than an hour ago.
His office was in the city and he could easily make the run in fifteen
minutes.

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